All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga

Srila Gurudev in Bamunpara on 05 December 2009
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When the five buses of devotees arrive in Bamunpara, Srila Govinda Maharaj is already in his quarters, the veranda made especially for him on the bottom floor of the new building. The devotees immediately go to the nat mandir and start a kirttan.

Shortly afterwards, His Divine Grace appears in front of the Deities, and a lively kirttan ensues after Guru Puja is performed with Sripad Acharyya Maharaj leading the Guru Arati song.
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Sripad Bhakti Nirmal Acharyya Maharaj leads the kirttan
Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha Gopinath, the Deities presiding over Sri Chaitanya Sridhar Govinda Seva Ashram in Bamunpara
   
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Everybody is touched by the performance of Guru Puja right here in Bamunpara, the holy birthplace of His Divine Grace
Srila Gurudev before the deities he has known since early childhood
   
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Afterwards Srila Gurudev does a little tour of the grounds..
And is escorted back to his quarters, so nicely decorated especially for the occasion
   
When Srila Gurudev settles on his veranda outside his room, he makes a hand motion to indicate that we should now go to his childhood home. Sripad Acharyya Maharaj leads a sankirttan party and stops a while to tell some childhood Pastimes of His Divine Grace. He also shares some memories of past visits to Bamunpara with His Divine Grace.

All the while he is sitting on the steps of the Pushpa-Samadhi Mandir of Tarangini Devi Dasi, Srila Gurudev's mother who passed away over three years ago, which is in the last stages of construction just next to the original house where he appeared in this world.

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Inside the nat mandir the lively kirttan continues for a long while...
Eventually Sripad Acharyya Maharaj leads the party to the actual birth place of Srila Govinda Maharaj, only a short walk away
   
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The house in the background is the actual site of the holy appearance of Srila Gurudev
Nearby, this Pushpa-Samadhi Mandir of Tarangini Devi Dasi, Srila Gurudev's mother who passed away over three years ago, is in the last stages of construction
   
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The party returns to the Temple while performing nagar sankirttan
Back at the Temple, the kirttan rises to a crescendo once again in the nat mandir
   
 
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